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Israel-Hezbollah border skirmishes: Latest developments

Hezbollah targeted Monday gatherings of Israeli troops near the Mattat and the Ramim barracks, surveillance equipment in Metula, and the post of Birkat Risha with Burkan rockets .

Israel shelled the southerns towns of Dhaira, al-Jebbayn, Tayr Harfa, Aita al-Shaab, Hanine, Shihine, al-Hamames hill near al-Khiam, the Marjeyoun plain, and Em el-Tout.

On Sunday, Three gunmen who crossed into Israel from Lebanon and two Israelis, including an elderly woman, were killed in Kfar Yuval in clashes and a strike along the frontier between Lebanon and Israel.

A group calling itself Kataeb Al-Ezz Al-Islamiya later said the fighters were from its ranks, Lebanese media reported.

The Israeli military said warplanes struck Hezbollah positions following the missile strike on the border community of Kfar Yuval as four Israeli airstrikes targeted the Jabal Safi area in Iqlim al-Tuffah, cutting off power supply in Mlikh and some Jezzine areas.

Source: Naharnet, Agence France Presse


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